Have you (Manjaro team) considered enabling the recently merged ntfs3 filesystem driver in Linux 5.15 and later? diff --git a/config b/config index 252f659..0982e2e 100644 --- a/config +++ b/config @@ -9558,7 +9558,10 @@ CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_UTF8=y CONFIG_EXFAT_FS=m CONFIG_EXFAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET="…

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windows cannot find read or write these FSes, I use ext4 on linux.

[image] Firestar: windows cannot find read or write these FSes It can. It’s just a matter of drivers. ext2/3/4 btrfs zfs But it’s offtopic a bit.

This module can be enabled in kernel of course but system will still default to FUSE driver. Also NTFS-3G needs separation to driver itself and tools (like mkfs) then as we still don’t have any other userspace pieces to use with new kernel driver. So it’s not something that will be used by default …

[image] LordTermor: So it’s not something that will be used by default for now unfortunately. But what harm/problem is there in enabling the driver at all in newer kenrnels >= 5.15?

Why do you think it’s a problem? It’s just isn’t done yet :slight_smile:

[image] LordTermor: Why do you think it’s a problem? I do not - but this whole discussion and your (kind of evading) answer did give the impression. If it’s to be enabled, then that is all this topic is asking for :+1:

If there is no legal issue in the NTFS3 module in the kernel, the NTFS3 support of Manjaro will benefit many people.

what is NTFS3 used for? i don’t understand how it can be useful to me?

If you’re not trolling and/or if you read the thread (or if you try to look for it on google), you can easily understand what we’re talking about. ntfs3 is a new file system driver which has a way better support for the NTFS file system, which currently on Manjaro is supported by ntfs-3g, another dr…

I’ve read the thread and documentation,I’m not arguing about it’s implementation. I’m trying to understand what is the purpose of it in Linux(real life use scenario); is it for non NTFS systems being able to read(write?) on NTFS formatted drives(partitions?) ?

NTFS3 filesystem driver

Support Kernel

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Will be available since 5.15.2

How to enable NTFS3?

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How to enable NTFS3?